| Wood Badge | |||
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 Wood Badge beads on a Gilwell scarf or neckerchief. | |||
| Founded | 1919 | ||
| Founder | The Boy Scouts Association (United Kingdom) | ||
| Awarded for | Completion of leadership training | ||
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The Wood Badge is an award for Scout leader training, first awarded by The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom in 1919 and subsequently adopted, with variations, by some other Scout organizations. Wood Badge courses teach Scout leadership skills and instil an ideological bond and commitment to the organizations. Courses generally have theory and practical phases followed by a practice project. Scouters who complete the course are awarded a pair of wood beads on each end of a leather thong, from a necklace of beads Robert Baden-Powell claimed to have taken from the African chief Dinizulu.